Robert Verrall
- Known for
- Production
- Born
- January 13, 1928
- Died
- January 17, 2025 (aged 97)
- Birthplace
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Biography
Robert Verrall (born January 13, 1928, in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian animator, director and film producer who worked for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) from 1945 to 1987. Over the course of his career, his films garnered a BAFTA Award, prizes at the Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival, and six Academy Award nominations. One of the first to join the NFB's fledgling animation unit, under Norman McLaren, Verrall would work as animator on such notable NFB animated shorts as The Romance of Transportation in Canada and produce such shorts as Cosmic Zoom, Hot Stuff as well as the Academy Award-nominees The Drag and What on Earth!. His NFB animation credits as executive producer included The Family That Dwelt Apart and Evolution, also Oscar nominees.[1][2][3][4] Verrall was named director of English-language NFB animation in 1967, and director of NFB's English-language production overall, in 1972. In the 1980s he acted as executive producer on a number of NFB co-productions, including the film adaption of The Wars, and The Tin Flute. His documentary production credits include Alanis Obomsawin's 1986 Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child. He is the father of David Verrall, who would himself go on to head the NFB's English-language animation unit.
Known For
Filmography
Professor Norman Cornett: 'Since when do we divorce the right answer from an honest answer?'
Movie · Producer
Poundmaker's Lodge: A Healing Place
Movie · Producer
Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child
Movie · Producer
The Way It Is
Movie · Producer
The Cap
Movie · Producer
John Cat
Movie · Executive Producer
The Masculine Mystique
Movie · Executive Producer
Incident at Restigouche
Movie · Executive Producer
The Wars
Movie · Executive Producer
Laughter in My Soul
Movie · Executive Producer
The Way It Is
Movie · Executive Producer
Ten Million Books: An Introduction to Farley Mowat
Movie · Executive Producer
Canada Vignettes: June in Povungnituk - Quebec Arctic
Movie · Executive Producer
Canada Vignettes: Wild Rice Harvest Kenora
Movie · Executive Producer
Canada Vignettes: Woolly Mammoth
Movie · Producer
Canada Vignettes: Wop May
Movie · Executive Producer
Canada Vignettes: Ma Chère Albertine
Movie · Executive Producer
Canada Vignettes: Helen Law
Movie · Executive Producer
Canada Vignettes: The Maple Leaf
Movie · Executive Producer
Canada Vignettes: Stunt Family
Movie · Executive Producer
Canada Vignettes: Toronto
Movie · Executive Producer
Canada Vignettes: Bill Miner
Movie · Executive Producer
Canada Vignettes: Captain Cook
Movie · Executive Producer
Canada Vignettes: Logger
Movie · Executive Producer
Canada Vignettes: Faces
Movie · Executive Producer
Canada Vignettes: Onions and Garlic: A Hebrew Fable
Movie · Executive Producer
Canada Vignettes: Fashion Designer
Movie · Executive Producer
Face of the Earth
Movie · Executive Producer
Goldwood
Movie · Executive Producer
The Bear's Christmas
Movie · Executive Producer
Propaganda Message
Movie · Executive Producer
Tickets s.v.p
Movie · Executive Producer
The Family That Dwelt Apart
Movie · Producer
11 Steps to Survival
Movie · Executive Producer
Tilt
Movie · Executive Producer
The North Wind and the Sun: A Fable by Aesop
Movie · Producer
Paul Kane Goes West
Movie · Executive Producer
Exeter
Movie · Executive Producer
Christmas at Moose Factory
Movie · Executive Producer
The Specialist
Movie · Producer
Hot Stuff
Movie · Producer
Ashes of Doom
Movie · Producer
The Sky Is Blue
Movie · Producer
To See or Not to See
Movie · Producer
In a Box
Movie · Producer
Cosmic Zoom
Movie · Producer
Around Perception
Movie · Producer
Boomsville
Movie · Producer
Kurelek
Movie · Producer
What on Earth!
Movie · Producer
The Drag
Movie · Producer